Professor Stella Vosniadou, director of the Cognitive Science Laboratory at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and adjunct professor at the University of Adelaide will discuss the problem of conceptual change in the learning of science and mathematics and the role of instructional analogies.

The Institute was officially launched on the 26 of February 2010. Members of the mathematics, science and education communities joined us in celebration on this inaugural day. Find out more about the launch on our events page.